Favourite modern composer/lyricist ?

#1

Favourite modern composer/lyricist ?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 9:27pm

I don't know i think schwartz and sondheim are a tie!

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#2

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 9:28pm

Cole Porter

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"It does what a musical's supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue."

#3

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 9:28pm

I cannot answer this. And I expect that NOBODY will answer this before listening to all the composers/lyricists of the history.

THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED. The original post was:
Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

so, according with the new title, I don't want to choose one... I have many!

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#4

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:22pm

WHAAAAAAAAT?!?!
Stephen Schwartz tied with....STEPHEN SONDHEIM?!

noooo
wayyy
in
helll.

Sondheim is the best ever.

-d.b.j-

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#5

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:25pm

Stephen Sondheim

As for more recent, "up and comers"... Jeanine Tesori.

#6

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:25pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Schwartz

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#7

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:26pm

Jason Robert Brown
Stephen Sondheim
Jeanine Tesori
William Finn

Schwartz is a good composer, horrible lyricist IMO.

#8

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:28pm

Ooooooh, yes. I *SO* agree with Jeanine.
-d.b.j-

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#9

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:45pm

Schwartz and Sondheim a tie?

Absurd and ridiculous. That is all I will say.

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Updated On: 8/31/04 at 10:45 PM

#10

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:50pm

I am riiiight with you on that, Priest.
-d.b.j-

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#11

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:50pm

In my lifetime:

1. Sondheim
2. Kander & Ebb
3. Schmidt & Jones.

#12

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:50pm

Sondheim without a doubt
As a team, I love Flaherty and Ahrens

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#13

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:27pm

Jason Robert Brown
Jenine Tesori

of all time...Andrew Lloyd Webber

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#14

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:29pm

Even though Schwartz has written my favorite musical, Sondheim has done some many more of my favorites and is more consistant, Sweeney Todd and Gypsy!!

1) Sondheim
2) Kander & Ebb
3) Wildhorn

#15

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:30pm

Cut down in their prime, but if you also consider their film work, I LOVE Menken and Ashman (especially Howard.)

#16

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:33pm

Oh, yes! Menken & Ashman are great.
however...
"Somewhere That's Green" = "A Whole New World"

:p

#17

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:34pm

Sondheim
Rodgers & Hart
Kander & Ebb
Cy Coleman
Tesori

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Updated On: 8/31/04 at 11:34 PM

#18

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:35pm

Sondheim.

I also like what I am hearing of Brooklyn.

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#19

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:38pm

Somehow, the thread title got changed to favorite 'ever' - in which case, I must add my loyalty to the ever romantic Lerner & Loewe.

#20

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:38pm

Menken and Ashman create great music that are very enjoyable to listen to.

#21

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:45pm

Ashman was taken far too early.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#22

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:48pm

Oh damn, add

Bernstein
Gershwin
Weill

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"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 8/31/04 at 11:48 PM

#23

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 9/1/04 at 12:38am

marc shiaman and jon hartmen jr

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#24

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 9/1/04 at 12:40am

Sondheim...he is truly a genius...

I also am in love with Adam Guettel

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#25

re: Favourite composer/lyricist ever?

Posted: 9/1/04 at 12:42am

Gerard Presgurvic
ALW

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